KOGNI Program Description

KOGNI: Computation of Measures of Cognitive Complexity

Background

The determination of a person's cognitive complexity is not
an easy task. One classical method for this purpose is the one proposed by Scott
(1962). He used the "Object Sorting Test" (OST) for a quantification of subject's
cognitive complexity. In the OST, subjects sort a given (or self-generated) list
of objects according to their own ideas. The task is to produce as many different
groupings as possible. For example, a list of countries has to be sorted and
subjects sort them into different (sub-)groups, like EU, NATO, third-world, etc..
The structure of this sorting procedure is the database for KOGNI.